"about an actor who once played a famous superhero. For his work, Iñárritu won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and the film won Best Picture. Filming took place in March 2013. Iñárritu was scheduled to begin production on ""The Revenant"" after ""Birdman"" wrapped. The film was granted a production budget of $60 million, with $30 million funded by New Regency. Brett Ratner's RatPac-Dune Entertainment, a joint venture between Ratner's RatPac Entertainment and 20th Century Fox's former financing partner, Dune Entertainment, also funded the film. Worldview Entertainment, who also co-financed ""Birdman"", was originally set to fund the"
"nine each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22, 2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. ""Birdman"" was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since ""Ordinary People"" (1980). Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming ""Gravity"". At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on ""Gravity"""
"apiece. ""La La Land""s Best Picture loss to ""Moonlight"" meant it set a record for most nominations and wins without winning Best Picture since ""Cabaret"" in 1972. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2017. ""Moonlight"" became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture. In an event unprecedented in the history of the Oscars, ""La La Land"" was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture, and, a few minutes later, the error was corrected and ""Moonlight"" was declared the winner. """", at 467 minutes, became the longest film"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"""The Phone Call"", ""Selma"", ""Still Alice"", and ""The Theory of Everything"" with one. The telecast garnered more than 37 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 87th Academy Awards were announced on January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PST (13:30 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by directors J. J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor Chris Pine. For the first time, nominations for all 24 competitive categories were announced. ""Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"" and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" tied for the most nominations with"
"2015, with most directors present for a Q&A following the screening. There were 145 submissions - the highest ever for SSFA - with 27 nominees over 11 categories. Winners in bold Best Fiction Bon Voyage Last Trip Home Stranger By Night Chamber of Ox Best Director Alvin Lee / Bon Voyage Grace Chew Hui Min / Destiny Han Fengyu / Last Trip Home Clare Chong / Stranger By Night Tan Wei Keong / Pifuskin Special Mention: He Shuming / And The Wind Falls Best Documentary The Longest Distance Relationship Destiny Chinese Housemaker Family Recipe Jia AKA Home Best Animation Afterline"
"2015 in film 2015 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and notable deaths. The top 10 films released in 2015 by worldwide gross are as follows: """" grossed over $2 billion, the third film to surpass that milestone, and the 3rd highest-grossing film of all time. ""Jurassic World"", ""Furious 7"", """", and ""Minions"" also grossed over $1 billion each. ""Spectre"" and ""Inside Out"" grossed more than $850 million. ""Minions"" became the first non-Disney animated film and the third animated film overall after ""Toy Story 3"" (2010)"
"the Academy held its 6th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 8, 2014. On February 7, 2015, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Margot Robbie and Miles Teller. ""Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"" and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" each won four awards, with the former film earning the Best Picture honor. Other winners include ""Whiplash"" with three and ""American Sniper"", ""Big Hero 6"", ""Boyhood"", ""Citizenfour"", """", ""Feast"", ""Ida"", ""The Imitation Game"", ""Interstellar"","
"less skill than that required of the actors in ""Brokeback Mountain."" Some critics, notably Roger Ebert, defended the decision to award ""Crash"" Best Picture, arguing that the better film won. Ebert questioned why many critics were not acknowledging other nominees and appeared to be bashing ""Crash"" only because it won over their preferred film. In 2015, ""The Hollywood Reporter"" polled Academy members on controversial past decisions, in which ""Brokeback Mountain"" won the revote for Best Picture. ""Brokeback Mountain"" won 71 awards and had an additional 52 nominations. It won three Academy Awards, for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best"
"announced (compared with three from the previous year). The combined gross of the eight Best Picture nominees at the American and Canadian box offices was $205 million, with an average of $25.6 million per film. None of the eight Best Picture nominees was among the top fifty release in box office during nominations. When the nominations were announced on January 15, 2015, ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" was the highest-grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $59.1 million in domestic box office receipts. ""The Imitation Game"" was the second-highest-grossing film with $42.7 million; this was followed by ""Birdman or (The"
"MacFarlane, host of the ceremony, and actress Emma Stone. ""Lincoln"" received the most nominations with twelve total, and ""Life of Pi"" came in second with eleven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2013. ""Argo"" was the fourth film to win Best Picture without a directing nomination, following 1927's ""Wings"", 1932's ""Grand Hotel"", and 1989's ""Driving Miss Daisy"". As co-producer of ""Argo"", George Clooney became the third individual to win Oscars for both acting and producing. By virtue of his nomination for Best Original Song in ""Ted"", host Seth MacFarlane became the first person since James"
"related events, the Academy held its 7th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 14, 2015. On February 13, 2016, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Olivia Munn and Jason Segel. ""Spotlight"" won two awards including Best Picture, and """" won six awards, the most for the evening. ""The Revenant"" earned three awards including Best Director for Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio. Brie Larson won Best Actress for ""Room"", while Mark"
"commends Lubezki's cinematography as succeeding at ""trapping viewers in a pressure-cooker atmosphere as Riggan and his players struggle to keep it together"", but suggests that Iñárritu is ""incapable of modulation"" and that there exists ""a sourness to ""Birdman"" that Iñárritu can't turn into wit."" In 2015, the film was named as one of the top 50 films of the decade so far by ""The Guardian"". At the 87th Academy Awards, ""Birdman"" won four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. Michael Keaton was nominated for Best Actor, Edward Norton and Emma Stone were nominated in"
"15th Academy Awards The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles honoring the films of 1942. Best Picture honors went to the film ""Mrs. Miniver"". The ceremony is most famous for the speech by the film’s Oscar-winning actress Greer Garson. Garson’s acceptance speech as Best Actress ran nearly 6 minutes and is generally considered to be the longest acceptance speech at an Academy Awards ceremony. ""Mrs. Miniver"" was the second film (after ""My Man Godfrey"" in 1936) to receive nominations in all four acting categories, as well as the first film"
"2015 Teen Choice Awards The 2015 Teen Choice Awards ceremony was held on August 16, 2015 at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. The awards celebrate the year's achievements in music, film, television, sports, fashion, comedy, video games, and the Internet, and were voted on by viewers aged 13 through 20. One Direction were the biggest winners of the night, winning eight of their ten nominations. ""Pretty Little Liars"" came in second by winning six of its ten nominations and ""Pitch Perfect 2"" came in third, winning five of its ten nominations. Britney Spears was awarded with the ""Candie's Choice"
"won three awards, including Best Picture, the fourth film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without its director nominated. Other winners included ""Les Misérables"" also with three awards, ""Django Unchained"", ""Lincoln"", and ""Skyfall"" with two, and ""Amour"", ""Anna Karenina"", ""Brave"", ""Curfew"", ""Inocente"", ""Paperman"", ""Searching for Sugar Man"", ""Silver Linings Playbook"" and ""Zero Dark Thirty"" with one. The telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced on January 10, 2013, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Seth"
"for MSNBC about the 78th Academy Awards selection of ""Crash"" as Best Picture, Erik Lundegaard called ""Crash"" the ""worst Best Picture winner since the 'dull, bloated' film ""The Greatest Show on Earth"""" In 2013, the fact that ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" won over ""High Noon"" was listed by ""Time"" among the 10 Most Controversial Best Picture Races. At the 25th Academy Awards, the movie won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Story. It received nominations for Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Costume Design, Color. It was the last Best Picture winner to win fewer than three Academy"
"that have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated - ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Up"" (2009) and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), the latter two having been nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees—but none have won. No science fiction film or superhero film has won (none of the latter has been nominated); only two fantasy films have won — """" (2003) and ""The Shape of Water"" (2017). ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five other have been nominated for"
"Bourgeoisie)"", ""La nuit américaine (Day for Night)"", ""Préparez vos mouchoirs (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs)"", and ""Amour"". National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best film of the year. In the past 40 years, the Society only agreed with the Academy Award for Best Picture seven times: ""Annie Hall"" (1977), ""Unforgiven"" (1992), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009), ""Spotlight"" (2015), and ""Moonlight"" (2016). Five others have received the Oscar for"
"top honors: Best Picture, Best Director (Barry Jenkins), Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), and the Russell Smith Award. ""La La Land"" and ""Manchester by the Sea"" both won two awards. ""Manchester by the Sea"" won Best Actor (Casey Affleck) and Best Screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan), while ""La La Land"" won Best Cinematography (Linus Sandgren) and Best Musical Score (Justin Hurwitz). Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual poll are listed in order. While most categories saw 5 honorees named, categories ranged from as many as 10 (Best Film) to as few as 2 (Best"
"2015 - Racing Extinction by Louie Psihoyos<br> 2014 - DamNation by Travis Rummel and Ben Knight<br> <br> William W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers Award<br> 2016 - ""The Seer"" by Laura Dunn<br> 2015 - ""TigerTiger"" by George Butler<br> <br> Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film<br> 2016 - The Birth of Saké by Erik Shirai <br> 2015 - Monsoon by Sturla Gunnarsson<br> 2014 - ""Once Upon A Forest"" by Luc Jacquet<br> 2013 - ""Harmony"" by Stuart Sender<br> 2012 - The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom by Lucy Walker<br> 2011 - ""Oil Rocks: City Above the Sea"" by Marc Wolfensberger<br> 2010 - ""The"
"2012. While many confuse ""The Artist"" as a silent feature, it is actually a sound picture with an accompanying soundtrack. The 1927 film ""Wings"" is still the only silent film to win Best Picture, an honor received at the inaugural awards ceremony in 1929. Moreover, it was also the first black-and-white feature to win Best Picture since 1993's ""Schindler's List"". Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win an Oscar. With her latest win for Best Actress, Meryl Streep became the fifth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. At age 82, Best Supporting Actor"
"2015 Billboard Music Awards The 2015 ""Billboard"" Music Awards ceremony was held on May 17, 2015, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It was aired live on ABC. The show was hosted by Ludacris and Chrissy Teigen. Taylor Swift won 8 out of her 14 nominations, including Top Artist, Top Female Artist and Top Billboard 200 Album for ""1989"". Other winners included Sam Smith, Iggy Azalea and Pharrell Williams scoring three trophies each. Meghan Trainor, One Direction, Jason Aldean, John Legend, Enrique Iglesias and Hozier won two categories. Swift premiered her ""Bad Blood"" music video at the"
"three top honors: Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Director (Alejandro G. Iñárritu), and Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki). The journalistic tale, ""Spotlight"", won Best Picture and Best Screenplay (Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer). Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual poll are listed in order. While most categories saw 5 honorees named, categories ranged from as many as 10 (Best Film) to as few as 2 (Best Cinematography, Best Animated Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Musical Score). Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2015 The 21st Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards honoring the"
"have handled—and did, in ""The Big Sky""—in under 90 seconds, with mostly off-camera particulars and minimal effects, but González Iñárritu forces it to resemble the Normandy Beach sequence in ""Saving Private Ryan"" as much as history or sense will allow, and then some."" ""The Revenant"" was ranked 22nd on Metacritic's and 79th on Rotten Tomatoes' list of best films of 2015. ""The Revenant"" has received numerous award nominations and wins, particularly for DiCaprio's performance, Iñárritu's direction and Lubezki's cinematography. At the 88th Annual Academy Awards, Iñárritu won the Best Director award for the second time in a row, Emmanuel Lubezki"
"gender, race and sexual orientation through on-screen representation. Best of Fest winners were Benjamin Cleary and TJ O’Grady Peyton, for their film ""Wave,"" the story of a man who wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognisable language, which also went on to win the Best Drama Award. Cleary was also awarded the Best of Fest in 2015 for ""Stutterer"", which later went on to receive the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 88thAcademy Awards. Chris Overton's ""The Silent Child,"" a film inspired by real life events, that told the story of a deaf four-year-old"
"the North American box office, which made it the second lowest domestically grossing film (adjusted for ticket-price inflation) to win Best Picture within the past four decades (after ""The Hurt Locker"" with $17 million). ""Spotlight"" was listed on over 120 critics' and publications' top ten lists. It was also voted the 88th greatest film since 2000 in an international critics' poll conducted by BBC. Spotlight (film) Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows ""The Boston Globe"" ""Spotlight"" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist"
"the first one since the 1948 awards show to feature film clips from the Best Picture nominated films. This year's nominations also marked the first time that three different films were nominated for the ""Top Five"" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay. The three films were ""Bonnie and Clyde"", ""The Graduate"" and ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"". However, the winner of Best Picture was producer Walter Mirisch and director Norman Jewison's thriller/mystery film, ""In the Heat of the Night"" (with seven nominations and five wins – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best"
"nominated for Best Picture and the first time since the 6th Academy Awards where none of the nominees were nominated for Best Screenplay. Best Supporting Actress winner Jennifer Hudson was the fifteenth Oscar acting winner to win for a debut film performance. ""I Need to Wake Up"" from ""An Inconvenient Truth"" became the first song from a documentary film to win Best Original Song. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 19 films received multiple nominations: The following five films received multiple awards: The following individuals presented awards or performed musical"
"won the most awards with seven including Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. Other winners included ""Dallas Buyers Club"" also with three awards, ""Frozen"", and ""The Great Gatsby"" with two, and ""Blue Jasmine"", ""The Great Beauty"", ""Helium"", ""Her"", ""The Lady in Number 6"", ""Mr Hublot"", and ""20 Feet from Stardom"" with one. The telecast garnered nearly 44 million viewers in the United States, making it the most watched Oscar ceremony since the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000. The nominees for the 86th Academy Awards were announced on January 16, 2014, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater"
"Editing, Best Costume Design, a second nomination for Best Original Song (""Audition""), Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. During the Oscars ceremony, presenter Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced that ""La La Land"" had won Best Picture, reading from the card Warren Beatty opened, which was actually a duplicate of the Best Actress card for Emma Stone. After the cast and crew of ""La La Land"" took the stage, it took the show's producers more than two minutes and nearly three speeches to fix the mistake. The actual winner was ""Moonlight"". La La Land (film) La La Land is a 2016"
"Academy winning ‘The Imitation Game’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly, Academy nominee ‘Wild’ starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern and ’Golden Globe nominated St. Vincent’ starring Bill Murray. Rudolf received his reward from Academy nominee Tom Berenger. Rudolf’s film also won the UT-Award for Best Film - the United Tribune is San Diego’s biggest newspaper with a circulation of 250 678 daily and 409 796 on Sundays. Recently the film won the Black Reel award for Outstanding World Cinema amongst fellow winners ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Fences’. In 2015 Rudolf won the BEST DIRECTOR AWARD at the Academy Accredited SUNSCREEN Film"
"Festival 2015 for ""Best Picture,"" ""Best Visual Effects,"" ""Best Costumes"" and ""Best Production Design""; ""Best Film,"" ""Best Director"" and ""Best Design"" at the London Fashion Film Festival 2015, ""Best of Festival"" at the Princeton Film Festival, 2015, ""Best Film"" at the International Fashion Film Festival Los Angeles 2015, first prize in the top four categories at the International Fashion Film Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, including ""Best Film,"" ""Best Director,"" ""Best Fashion,"" ""Best Special Effects"" and the RED Camera Award, have screened at the Milan Fashion Film Festival and the Los Angeles Short Film Festival 2015"